US PILIPINOS... WAKE UP !!!!...ERAP HAD EXPRESSED HIS DESIRE TO BE OF SERVICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ONCE AGAIN... MADALI MAKALIMOT ANG PINOY SA NAKARAAN... JOSEPH ERAP EJERCITO WAS CONVICTED BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT OF CORRUPTION BY THE SANDIGANGBAYAN WHILE HE WAS STILL HOLDING THE HIGHEST PUBLIC OFFICE IN THE LAND.... WHERE CAN YOU FIND A PRESIDENT WHO RUNS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINES IN FRONT OF A PRIVATE HIGH STAKES GAMBLING TABLE ?....WHERE CAN YOU FIND A PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY COLLECTING THE PROCEEDS OF ILLEGAL GAMBLING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY FOR HIMSELF AND WHEN IT WAS NOT ENOUGH THROWS TEMPER TANTRUMS? WHERE CAN YOU FIND A PRESIDENT WHO CANNOT PROVE THE SOURCE OF HIS EXTRA WEALTH? JUST BY CHECKING HIS INCOME TAX RETURNS THROUGH THE YEARS WILL CAST DOUBTS AS TO HIS SOURCES OF EXTRA WEALTH AND CAPACITY TO OWN SUCH HUMONGOUS PROPERTIES AND LIFESTYLES THAT IS BEYOND HIS KNOWN EARNINGS...I AM NOT MAKING-UP THESE OBSERVATIONS BY MYSELF, THESE STATEMENTS ARE RECORDED OFFICIALLY IN THE COURT DOCUMENTS WHICH WERE THE BASIS OF HIS CONVICTION FOR PRESIDENTIAL CORRUPTION! WHAT HAD HE ACHIEVED DURING HIS REIGN IN OFFICE THAT HAD IMPROVED THE LIVES OF ORDINARY FILIPINOS???? WHAT WAS THE STATE OF THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY DURING THE DURATION OF HIS PRESIDENCY? HELPING THE POOR COULD EASILY BE ACHIEVED IF HE HAD THE FORESIGHT OF STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY AND GETTING MORE PEOPLE EMPLOYED... NOT HANDOUTS OF CASH AND GOODS IN THE SHORT TERM... WHAT NEXT FOR THE VERY SAME PEOPLE HE PROUDLY BOASTS AS HIS "ACE UP HIS SLEEVES" OF BEING THERE FOR THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED FILIPINOS AS HIS ACHIEVEMENTS... THE VERY NEXT DAY? DO THEY HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS TO FEED THEIR RESPECTIVE FAMILIES FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR? HIS THINKING OF HELPING THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED SHOWS HIS REAL STRENGTH IN GOVERNING THE COUNTRY...NO GOAL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PLIGHT OF HIS COUNTRYMEN TO SHOW... ALL SHOW.. NOTHING ELSE...!!! BEING ABSOLVED OF HIS ABUSE OF PRESIDENTIAL POWERS DOES NOT GIVE HIM A CLEAN SLATE ... HE HAS DONE IT WHILE IN OFFICE, HE CAN DO IT AGAIN AND DO IT PERFECTLY CLEAN AND UNDETECTABLE TO US MERE FILIPINO MORTALS THIS TIME. A PERSON CAN ONLY BE TRUSTED ONCE... WHEN THAT TRUST IS GONE, THERE IS NO WAY WE SHOULD RESTORE THAT TRUST TO HIM... WOULD YOU WANT TO RETURN FERDINAND MARCOS TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (IF HE WERE STILL ALIVE TODAY) ON THE BASIS OF AN EXECUTIVE-PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? NEITHER SHOULD WE RETURN EX-PRESIDENT JOSEPH "ERAP" EJERCITO TO BEING OUR PRESIDENT ONCE AGAIN... HIS CORE SUPPORTERS ARE THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED ... THEY WILL STILL REMAIN THE SAME FOR THE DURATION OF ERAP'S REIGN IF HE WERE TO BE RESTORED TO THE PRESIDENCY ONCE AGAIN !!!!!! WAKE UP PHILIPPINES!!!... WAKE UP!!!
MR. DIOSCORO BRIONES
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA
ps. WHY AM I NOW HERE IN AUSTRALIA INSTEAD OF OUR COUNTRY, THE PHILIPPINES? NO JOB SECURITY FOR MY FAMILY DURING THE INFAMOUS REIGN OF FERDINAND MARCOS. HIS FAMILY STILL ENJOYS HIS PLUNDERED WEALTH, RAIDING THE COFFERS OF THE PHILIPPINES CENTRAL BANK WHILE STILL IN OFFICE.
I AM AND WILL ALWAYS REMAIN A FILIPINO BY HEART .... FOR ALWAYS ! MABUHAY !!1